Back in May of 2014 Microsoft released a windows update – MS14-025 – that removed the ability to push out passwords to workstations remotely using group policy due to issues with elevation of privilege. If that patch is applied it’s a rather large pain to change the local admin after that without something like SCCM in ...

Below is a script, provided as is, that is a non-fancy way to reset permissions with some sense of logic on a users home directory. I’ve got a slightly better version of it, but I want to tweak a few things before posting it online.